User blog comment:Nikolai Banks/Rune of Chaos/@comment-3135907-20110729190442

At the west wall of Castle Chaos, a grappling hook flies over the wall and lands with a light clank. Moments later a small weasel scrabbles up, followed by a stoat and twelve rats. The last to come up is a fox, dressed in a cloak and carrying a large halberd. The rats are all holding shields painted green and red for defense and short swords for attack. The stoat bears a crosstreed spear on which hangs a tapestry-like banner painted the same green and red as the shields, the weasel a small tarnished buckler shield and a cutlass. Heading down the wallstairs and into the mostly empty courtyard, the small force creep forward across the lawns. Sudenly, a guard intercepts them. "Hoi, wot are yew doin' 'ere? GUARDS! TO ARMS! TO-unh" Five or six guards fully dressed in chainmail come marching out of the barracks, fumbling to get their helmets on. A ferret Captain takes charge of the guards. He leads them forward toward where the fox and fourteen others are standing at the ready. At first they sneer when they see only seven running at them, but then they realize that twenty more are attacking them from behind, closing off their escape. The fox, though, is a skilled fighter, far above the average soldier. He leaps into the ferret's force. Slaying the ferret with one sweep of his halberd, the fox pole-vaults onto the walltop in the same movement. Dispatching two guards there, he climbs down the rope with the grappling hook and is halfway to the ground when he sees that some guards are sawing through the now-frayed strands. Without warning the rope snaps and the fox plummets four or five feet then runs off into the woods. Meanwhie, the ones trapped in the courtyard aren't so lucky...